Practice Expertise

  • Financial Services Litigation - Commercial
  • Financial Services Litigation - Consumer
  • Litigation
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Areas of Practice

  • Financial Services Litigation - Commercial
  • Financial Services Litigation - Consumer
  • Litigation
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WSG Practice Industries

Profile

Katie Simpson is an attorney in the Financial Services Litigation Group in Dykema's Chicago office. Ms. Simpson has valuable experience in multiple aspects of real estate litigation including foreclosures, evictions, building code violations, liens priority issues, real estate tax disputes, receiverships, and bankruptcy matters, and other creditors' rights matters. In her transactional commercial real estate practice, Ms. Simpson assisted in conducting due diligence for commercial loan acquisitions and Small Business Association loans, and has negotiated and drafted commercial real estate contracts, purchase and sale agreements, work out agreements, and lease amendments. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Simpson was a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Judge Daniel Patrick Brennan at the Circuit Court of Cook County in the Mortgage Foreclosure Section of the Chancery Division.


Bar Admissions

Illinois

Education
The John Marshall Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2011 Georgia State University, B.S., 2007

Areas of Practice

  • Financial Services Litigation - Commercial
  • Financial Services Litigation - Consumer
  • Litigation

Blogs

Cannabis Law Blog

The cannabis industry presents unprecedented opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs. Yet, entities looking to engage in this emerging industry face daunting levels of legal complexity and uncertainty. Moreover, state and local governments are constantly tasked with regulating an ever-evolving industry. Dykema's Cannabis Law Blog discusses important cannabis-related legal developments, reviews the practical implications of those developments, and provides valuable insight for anyone...

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